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(Ptolemaic Solar System) Scenographia Systematis Mundani Ptolemaici . . .

Fine old color example of Cellarius's chart illustrating Claudius Ptolemy's earth-centered model of the universe.

Price: $3,400.00

(South Sea Bubble) De Zuid Zé Compagnie Door Wind In Top Gerezen Beklaagt nu Haar Verlies Met Een Bekommerd Wezen. [The South Sea Company, once risen high by the wind, now laments its loss with a troubled countenance.]

De Zuid Zé Compagnie Door Wind In Top Gerezen Beklaagt nu Haar Verlies Met Een Bekommerd Wezen, produced anonymously in Amsterdam in 1720, is an engraved broadside that offers a visual critique of the South Sea Bubble. The central image portrays the personification of the South Sea Company, depicted as a contemplative female figure, encircled by documents and accompanied by four putti, among which Fama is notable. Surrounding this central portrayal are vignettes that display human interactions with money, notably a man swallowing coins, and other scenes illustrating the frenzied trading and labor that epitomized this financial disaster.

Price: $125.00

(Trade Card) Dickinson & Co's Establishment For Type Founding, Stereotyping, and Printing Is at No. 52 Washington Street, Boston.

Scarce Boston Trade Card, with a view of the city.

Price: $125.00

Les Signes en deux Hemispheres

Extremely rear celestial map of the world, published in Paris by Antoine De Fer, father of the Royal Geographer Nicholas De Fer

Price: $395.00

Perseus

"One of the Unsung Treasures of Celestial Cartography"

Price: $345.00

[ Phases of the Moon ] Phasis Lunae Adultae, observata Viennae Anno MDCXCVI Die 6 Nove intra 5 et 6 p [and] Phasis Lunae ad Oppositionem vergentis, observata Segedini Anno MDCXVI die 12 Iulii, hor 10 pomer.

Fine pair of images of the phases of the moon, which appeared in Luigi Marsigili's monumental Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus, published in 1726.

Price: $475.00